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Corno_1
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Posted: 27th Oct 2014 10:01
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At the moment I am learning java and I had now a good idea:

write in a lua script methodes
load this in another lua script
use methodes names as commands

Is that something anybody want to use? Is this possible to implement? What´s your opinion!

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Posted: 27th Oct 2014 14:55
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If I understand you correctly, it looks like you want to create global functions for use in your scripts. That's standard stuff and scripters use that technique quite a lot in this community. Simply create a script file with your global commands and then use the require statement to include that file in your scripts for use. For example, if you have a file with global functions called myfunctions.lua then do the following at the top of the script you want to access those functions from:

require "myfunctions"

And be sure to put the myfunctions.lua in the scriptbank folder.

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Posted: 27th Oct 2014 16:40
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thanks that is exactly what I need!

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Posted: 28th Oct 2014 21:15
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can you give me some example scripts? one with a methode and one which call it?
I get an error! File not found!

Thanks in advance

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Posted: 29th Oct 2014 10:41 Edited at: 29th Oct 2014 10:42
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I usually put package.path line in my global.lua and then I can just require "filename" in any lua script file.

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Posted: 29th Oct 2014 14:39
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Yes, I had a feeling you'd get the error without the package.path command, but I couldn't remember the exact syntax. Thanks, Avram, for providing that.

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Posted: 29th Oct 2014 15:29
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Thanks! I will test it when I was home.

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Posted: 29th Oct 2014 23:07 Edited at: 29th Oct 2014 23:07
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Ok it can load it but I always get an error!

Can someone look at the scripts and say me what I did wrong!



Thanks in advance

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Posted: 30th Oct 2014 04:55
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Well, without detailed analysis, I'd say I see a couple of problems right off.

First, you never defined weapon_name, so you can't access it like an array element with something like weapon_name[e]. You need a global definition somewhere like:



Second, I'm not sure on this one, but I don't think you can call a function like giveback without parens. Maybe that should be giveback()

Other than that, I'd have to try in a real project and see what else I could dig up.

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Posted: 30th Oct 2014 11:37
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Quote: "you never defined weapon_name"

it's already defined in the default global since they updated the weapon.lua script

however it doesnt actually seem to work in anything but the default scripts (for me anyway)

and yes if you put
it should work (if you dont get an error for the name)

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Posted: 30th Oct 2014 15:35
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Quote: "however it doesnt actually seem to work in anything but the default scripts (for me anyway)"

this was the error! Thanks. I copy all in the weapon script and now it works.

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